Jack Tsao
Education:
D. Phil., University of Oxford, 1995 Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1996, M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1997, Neurology Residency, University of California–San Francisco, 2001
Clinical Fellowship in Geriatric and Behavioral Neurology, University of Florida, 2004
Research Interests:
Role of the Cholinergic System in Dementia
Use of Botulinum Toxin in the Treatment of Low Back Pain and Headache
Use of CT Angiography in the Evaluation of Acute Stroke
Models of Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Nerve Injury, and Synaptic Plasticity
Methods for Assessing Human Cognitive Abilities
Telemedicine for Clinical Neurology
Hyperbaric Oxygen and Seizures
Cerebral Malaria
Representative Publications:
Tsao JW, Dickey DH, and Heilman KM. Emotional Prosody in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Neurology 2004; 63: 192-3.
Tsao JW and Heilman KM. Transient Memory Impairment and Hallucinations Associated with Tolterodine Use. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003, 349: 2274-2275.
Tsao JW, George EB, and Griffin JW. Temperature Modulation Reveals Three Distinct Stages of Wallerian Degeneration. Journal of Neuroscience, 1999, 19: 4718-4726.
Contacts
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Department of Neurology, Room A1036
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
Telephone: 301-295-3643
Fax: 301-295-0620